We were in New Jersey this Christmas with Amy’s family. There was Italian food and prime rib, and we got a Metropolitan Museum cat block and sweaters and a couple of Star Trek DVDs and some cash, and I got to watch A Christmas Story for the first time ever, along with The Simpsons Movie. We also saw a car with reindeer antlers, and hung a Moravian star on the tree. It was a nice, quiet, peaceful few days with the in-laws to celebrate Christ’s birth.

Then we flew to the Philippines.